with small
bits of interesting discussion mixed in by a small minority of participants... What to say?
Not exact matches
I've always considered Jung's idea
of the «Collective Unconscious» and Plato's
discussion of memory in Meno quite
interesting, with the idea that we have access to information beyond what we've personally experienced and that we are not born completely tabula rasa, that education is not one person giving someone else some
bit of information, but rather simply reminding them
of something they already knew since before being born.
Steve: I am turning to page 74 actually, because there were a couple
of things, I was just leafing through all
of these shorter origins pieces, and I learned a couple
of really
interesting things such as, we have this half a page on the origins
of insurance and the insurance industry's getting, they are getting batted around a
bit during this whole healthcare reform
discussion, but what's really
interesting is that the advent for or the necessity for insurance wound up being a crucial driver to the advent
of mathematics and probability.
Well, in a
discussion with 24 Frames, Russell tipped his hand a
bit in saying he's
interested in «a family that's a force to be reckoned with in the world
of international art and antiquities... that deals with heads
of state and heads
of museums and metes out justice....
Still, it's quite beautiful, though the beauty highlights that Anderson is mainly
interested in sexy and not the slightest
bit interested in the texture
of the medium: any examination
of the dark side
of the»90s digital revolution would benefit from a
discussion of this film, as visually sterile, as it happens, as Tony Randel and Clive Barker's geometric inferno from Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
Digital comics were one
of the primary topics
of discussion at this year's NY Comic - Con, with the iPad in the spotlight and a variety
of publishers and technology intermediaries offering up new announcements and intriguing
bits of data, but the most
interesting news arguably came from Dark Horse Comics.
With themes like female identity, competing conceptions
of beauty, mothers who are absent (or overly present) and even a
bit of magic, these young adult picks are sure to spark
interesting discussions.
Wyatt Cheng's criticisms
of Guild Wars, a game he otherwise seems to be enjoying quite a
bit, informs this
discussion in some
interesting ways.
The salon style evening started out with wine and light
bites, followed by the conversation style
discussion on the subjects
of science, culture, media, sexism in science, and a host
of other
interesting topics that were explored revolving around the theme
of the event.
I will also applaud Hulme's openness, and I used to like what he wrote quite a
bit; like Judith's initial
discussion of «tribalism,» I found his approach to the problems
of tribalism in science to be quite
interesting.
An
interesting bit of information has not made it into this
discussion, but always bears repeating.
This Week in Tech # 184 had an
interesting bit of discussion as to this at the start.
My last comment in what has been an
interesting discussion — and one where I might otherwise diverge a
bit from Mr. Wright (albeit from the bias
of being a litigator I confess).
raises an
interesting question and has instigated a fair
bit of discussion in the comments.